{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bodyway Intuition Podcast","title":"Pay Attention to Smell and Appreciate Smells in Their Environment with Dr. Rachel Herz","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3083,"description":"Our sense of smell constantly provides us with information, but how much attention are we actually paying to it?\nIn this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Dr. Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist and leading expert on the psychological science of smell, explores how scent influences memory, emotion, attraction, food, safety, and the way we perceive the world around us. A faculty member at Brown University and author of Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food, she has spent decades studying the relationship between smell, taste, behavior, and human experience.\nRachel shares why smell can evoke visceral memories, how our personal associations influence whether we experience a scent as pleasant or unpleasant, and why the environment we're in can actually change our experience of what we're eating. She and Eboni also explore olfactory adaptation, body scent and attraction, the extraordinary amount of information humans can perceive through smell, and why Rachel encourages people to deliberately exercise their sense of smell.\nThe conversation expands into how perception shapes our day-to-day experience and how greater awareness of what we're smelling, seeing, tasting, touching, and hearing can reveal how much we participate in shaping the way we experience our lives. Using smell as an example, the conversation offers another way to consider the information available to us through our senses and what can change when we begin paying closer attention.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rrH9oWo95eYlN2_CC_hAigu7ICjhxZVzBfMHSZa31hk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZWJi/YTMxZWYyMTBlNmE2/ZGVjYTRhNzA0MGY5/N2EwZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}